Trump’s plan to take by force the territory of a NATO country is the third rail of his presidency. As of yet, nothing he’s done seems to shake the MAGA folk from believing the truth that this is a person who has no business running a hot dog stand much less a country.
The invasion of Greenland will end the world as we know it.
If you thought tariffs were a stupid idea, just wait until we’re cut off from buying or selling anything from Europe, or anything that has to pass through Europe to get here.
We’re going to lose every base we have in Europe, including those in Germany we fly wounded troops from Iraq to when needed. How are we going to supply the men and women in uniform without NATO’s help? How are we going to respond quickly if Iran invades Iraq, which they can do now that America is cut off from the Middle East?
If Trump attacks NATO, an organization we helped build and maintain for over seven decades, who will trust us after that?
Putin will have no force on earth to restrain his dream of a Greater Russia. With a NATO blockade of the Suez canal oil coming from the Middle East could be cut off easily, and there is nothing America could do to get it back. Without the bases in Europe, America is an island in the Atlantic with nowhere to land planes.
It gets much worse, and it gets there quickly.
Iran can take Iraq in less than a week setting up a Shia Superstate. China can take Taiwan and become the Pacific Superpower dictating trade and movement of ships without interference from America at war with their former closest friends. Taiwan is the biggest and most important producer of computer chips on earth, and a war with NATO hands them to China.
The Middle East goes hard over to Islamic Extremists, who have long yearned to be rid of American influence. India will be forced to become closer to Russia or China, simply because after attacking NATO, America will lose the trust of everyone on earth.
Go through your house and toss out everything not made in America. Your jeans, appliances, your car, your dishes, your flooring, your computers, and you’re going to find that Trump doesn’t produce anything but conflict and strife.
We cannot wake up one day, elect a leader who is both sane and knowledgeable, and hope the world as a whole trusts us again.
Unless we rise up against the end of America as we know it, and we do it soon, everything we have ever known will simply wither and disappear, leaving us with nothing but memories if the way things once were, and landfills full of red hats.
Take Care,
Mike
But we will have the most expensive Department of War Crimes in the world keeping us safe from those that want to take whatever is left of the former shining beacon of hope and righteousness. And tacky gold stuff will be required in all homes over the one channel state TV.
“We are watching you.”
His recent foray had Cheeto Mussolini pulling a TACO in regards to his tariffs threat. I do want to revisit my belief that a large part of this chapter was to pull the Epstein files out of the news cycle, which to my observation, has worked. Although, I realize the DOJ has since said the bill that required the files to be released has no enforcement mechanism. Which is true. That thought is similar to saying that a bill outlawing murder is meaningless unless that law specifically has consequences for violating it.
Understanding legalese, the word “shall” has more power than “may” and this bill uses shall, but as the toddler-in-chief has never had any real world consequences, the logic utilized in not releasing any more files is on brand.
Anyhow, back to Greenland… Yes, Putin needs NATO to become ineffective. Russia has had their agent working on that since the 80s when he posted ads in a few national papers stating his contempt for NATO. (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-foreign-policy-ad/) This done after his time with his then wife, Ivana, whose father was involved with Russian intelligence (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/29/trump-czechoslovakia-communism-spying). Even back then, Russia had a distrust of NATO, so getting into the uneducated, narcissist brain of little Donnie was an easy target. In my opinion, sometime between then and his Miss Teen pageant visit in Russia, Putin blackmailed him in order to escalate his plans to dissolve the U.S.
And our Dictator Tot is malleable simply with flattery with a healthy dose of bribery, so the bug was put into his ear to run for president and he would be helped along the way by Russia as investigations into that election has shown. (https://www.acslaw.org/projects/the-presidential-investigation-education-project/other-resources/key-findings-of-the-mueller-report/)
With his health and sanity in question, the plan seemingly was expedited and the “flood the zone” process increased. What I can’t say with certainty is if there was any collusion with Russia and the wealthy in the US to destroy the fourth estate as that was a plan for the conservatives here for years, with media outlets being purchased in large numbers by wealthy conservatives. (Ironically, the claim of a liberal bias became absurd after the Telecommunications Act) Needless to say, the republiklan party and Russia are like two peas in a pod in political philosophy, so it’s difficult to say what involvement there was if any. But knowing this fact, I’m sure Russia recognized an ally in their goals and could easily stand by and let the oligarchs continue their destruction of the Constitution while Putin manipulated his puppet to his demands.
I’ve said this before, what makes the U.S. the U.S. is our Constitution. To willfully ignore the principles of that document is an admission of hatred for our country, so anyone claiming or at best ignoring the obvious disdain for the rule of law, has no claim to saying they are being patriotic. I advise anyone who feels otherwise to read, “They Thought They Were Free” (https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.htm) and if you walk away from that saying you don’t see the similarities, then your soul is beyond saving.
A sample of how one part of the world sees the situation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2A2apRNqD8